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We ordered the pork soup dumplings and the chocolate mochi dumplings. Oddly, we received the dessert dumplings before the pork. The dessert dumplings …
Cori Theroux
Din Tai Fung
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Din Tai Fung is the best Chinese restaurant in town to eat at. Their Xiao Long Baos and other dishes taste really good, compared to other restaurants.…
Jonathan Thomas Yip
Din Tai Fung
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Great dumplings and wonton! We love watching them make the dumplings and also enjoy eating them! Greens and beans were wonderful too! We have enjoyed …
Nancy Edwards Chong
Din Tai Fung
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7 Reviews on “Din Tai Fung”
We ordered the pork soup dumplings and the chocolate mochi dumplings. Oddly, we received the dessert dumplings before the pork. The dessert dumplings were pillows of heavenly just melted chocolate, where the chocolate retains some shape but is still melted. The dumpling skin was the perfect thickness to offset the sweet filling. The pork dumplings were the best soup dumplings I have had and I try them as often as I can. The size was perfect for soup dumplings. I could roll it in my mixture of ginger, soy sauce, black vinegar, and chili oil. Then, proceed to put the whole dumpling in my mouth for the perfect bite. The prices were reasonable for what was received. I would come here all the time, if I could.
Din Tai Fung is the best Chinese restaurant in town to eat at. Their Xiao Long Baos and other dishes taste really good, compared to other restaurants. Their service is really professional. The staff welcome you and are very friendly and attentive when serving you. I ordered a Chicken Fried Rice and Xiao Long Bao. The food was very tasty. Even though the price may be a little expensive, it’s very worth it if you love Chinese food and professional service! I highly recommend anyone who loves Chinese food to come eat here!
Great dumplings and wonton! We love watching them make the dumplings and also enjoy eating them! Greens and beans were wonderful too! We have enjoyed several dinners here and it is consistently good-
Long wait, but worth it! Very classy and professional, tasty dishes and you can shop in the mall while you wait for your table. Dumpling are amazing, of course.
I’m pretty well versed on Dim Sum and this place it tops! A lot of great options on the menu and two of us tried quite a few of them.Great service and fresh ingredients in all of the items we had.
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Spectacular location, mediocre food. We were truly excited about this place, when we saw it first while walking the South Coast Plaza Mall months ago still under construction. First they said it will open in Spring, then delays and it finally open its doors on August 18, 2014. The fuzz this place created, and its location, almost guaranteed heavy traffic so we decided to drop a few days later at around 3 PM on Thursday 28, 2014. The waiting for a table turned out to be a little under 2 hours. We were still excited, thinking that this place was going to be special. Worth mentioning that the South Coast Plaza location will pay large dividends to this international franchise, for people were lining up and security was required to keep crowds under some type of orderly fashion. The place has less tables than we had envisioned, we counted approximately 60? Perhaps a few more as we were seated right by the revolving doors leading to the kitchen. The staff in this place is something to see: Supervisors, Pasta Makers, Busboys, Waiters, Bar attendants, etc. Easily 50 Din Tai Fung employees running around in the busy place. The place were they make the dumplings and all pasta based creations had about 20 cooks dressed in white, working like busy bees in the height of the season. We finally were seated on a table for 4, although we were only 3. Our waiter of asian descent was John, perfectly trained for the Din Tai Fung style of business. A little patronizing perhaps, and slightly pushy, but nice demeanor overall. This is a Chinese place with the emphasis on pasta, noodles, dumplings and such. At this point we were open the menu. We ordered the following dishes: Fried Pork Chop (Appetizer category) $5. Turned out to be the best among all the others, so good we thought that if we had only ordered several and skipped the rest, it would have turned out a decent experience. 4.5 Stars.Shrimp and Pork Wonton Soup $9.50. This selection was the start of all that is wrong with this place. It arrived lukewarm with a chicken broth that had absolutely nothing special about it, and 6 dumplings inside. The broth and the wontons, which turned out to be bland and hardly any evidence of the shrimp. We made the mistake of ordering two of this dish. 2 Stars.Mixed Wonton Soup $9. This one arrived with zero broth, instead a sauce at the bottom, and was highly praised by our waiter and by the person that brought it to the table, exclaiming it was his favorite. The sauce at the bottom was terribly mediocre, and the few wontons that came with it absolutely soggy, and lacking any flavor besides the one imparted with the sauce at the bottom. Such a joke because it lacked any type of quality or flavor. 1.5 Stars.Shrimp Fried Noodles $10.50. Did I forget to mention that the side of this dish is very small compared to the average serving somewhere else? It is. Arrived with about 8 medium shrimp, and the noodles were wide and thick, not a bad flavor, but that was it. The shrimp and the noodle, no vegetable, nothing else. 2.5 Stars.Shrimp Fried Rice $9.50. Perhaps one of the worst version of all time, ridiculously small serving, lots of eggs, not one single veggie. I guess this is fried rice Taiwan Style. 2 Stars.Pork and Crab XiaoLongBao (10 pcs) $11. These dumpling are thick skinned, the center which is supposed to be the Crab and Pork did not taste like any of the two. Very small amount, plenty of thick construction pasta. Bland, and to make matters slightly worst, the only sauces offered by this cheap/overly expensive money makers, were soy sauce and vinegar, standard at each table. This is not a Chinese place, per say, it is more like a palace of Chinese pasta that happens to be not very good. 1.5 Stars.Shrimp and Pork Dumplings (10 pcs) $10. Another tasteless 80% pasta and no more than 20% filling. Bland, and once I open the dumpling to see what we were being served, the filling looked like something you find at your local all you can eat buffet for a lot less. 2 Stars.Fish Dumplings (10 pcs) $9.50. Do your wallet a favor and avoid this place, but if you must go, do not get these fish dumplings, for they are probably the left overs of all fish turned into a smooth mass, with the most mediocre flavor this side of a palate less place, this one was the one that broke the camel’s back. Absolutely mediocre in all possible ways. 1.5 Stars.Chicken Dumplings (10 pcs)$9. The same story, different day. 2 Stars.Society seems to be willing to pay double, for what to some may be an elite establishment in a world savvy mall. The lines will definitely keep going, but the one point to remember is that this is not mecca of superior food, just a proven formula of average to mediocre food, that dresses itself in fancy settings but does not deliver a memorable experience. The bill came around $100 plus.On a brighter note: the take out packaging is so cute, you want to keep it for decoration. Two hours wait for this kind of food? Maybe for some, but certainly not for us ever again.